jQuery – Getting to Know the jQuery Documentation

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In yesterday’s blog posts, we have discussed about jQuery ready function. If you didn’t read that, please read before proceeding with this article as this is a continuation of that article. Here is the link jQuery – ready function. In this article, we will go over jQuery documentation.

In previous articles, we have seen how jQuery can be added into a page and the fundamentals used to work with it. Let’s take a little bit of time to run over jQuery documentation site. If you want to be good in jQuery, you really need to spend some time on jQuery documentation. By doing that, you can really speed up your coding.

In addition to getting script from jquery.com, you will get API Documentation as well. This is one of the important things you should know, if you are working with jQuery in your project.

Fortunately jQuery documentation is improving year over year. Let’s take a quick look at what we can get from the API documentation.

While clicking on API documentation, we will be navigated to another page api.jquery.com where on the left hand side, some categories can be found. Vast amount of information about Ajax, Attribute, CSS, Effects, Events, DOM Manipulations, Selectors etc. can be found there.

For example, let’s click on Selectors and see what all things are available. We can see all the different stuff related to Selectors.

Now let’s look at DOM Manipulations. Click on DOM Insertion, Inside and see the several methods for doing that. We can append things, prepend things, change text, etc.

The nice thing about this is while clicking on it, you will get a nice explanation of the function or property you have clicked. It also tells the version in which that function or property is added.

Below it, you can see some information about how to use that function or property.

While scrolling down, you can also see a good example of that function or property.

You can even run a live demo as well.

So this is a very useful site for jQuery developers. If you want to become well in jQuery, you should follow jQuery documentation.

Tomorrow

In tomorrow’s blog post, we will discuss about Selectors in jQuery.

Reference: Arun Ramachandran (http://BestTEchnologyBlog.Com)